This is a diverse collection of songs and ideas that I have recorded over the years. I play all of the instruments, and sing most of the songs, with a few exceptions. As I stated, this is quite diverse material. If you don't like a particular song, try skipping to the next one.

I used a Fostex VF160 deck as my main capture device, and Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (Adobe Audition) for mixing most of the songs; most of the "ideas" were mixed internally in the Fostex. I mainly used Sure 57s and 58s, along with a few EV's here and there. For the drums, I used all sorts of things- Fruity Loops 3, a Casio keyboard, a Boss DR-5 drum machine, in-browser drum machine simulators and even a live drummer! (Well, I think he was alive, it's hard to tell sometimes).

For guitars, I used either my cheapie Fender Mexican Strat (I only bought it because it had skull inlays in the neck, I didn't even try it out (don't worry I covered the cheesy skull graphic on the body with a sticker)) which I stuck a mystery pick-up that I've had for years into the bridge position, I think it was an old Seymour Duncan Metal Destroyer model or some shit, it was chunky-sounding. That or I played my 1958 solid body Gretsch, or a no-brand acoustic thing I had found in the trash.

A lot of this stuff is my getting past the learning curve of the Fostex, they are great machines once you get them figured out, the manual was useless and the tech support non-existent. So this is more-or-less me just cutting my teeth. I have a degree in AV technologies, but I learned on big honkin' Ampex 4-track reel-to-reels, all out board effects, etc. As an engineer, I grew up/learned audio engineering during the advent of digital recording. I was there for the ugly parts of it's history, and while the Fostex has it's limitations, it effectively replaced an entire room full of gear. I consider my technique "ghetto-tech;" I use the newer technology, but ensure that it doesn't sound TOO clean, it's easy to lose the soul in today's digital world.

And with this beer now being empty, that concludes today's lecture on my recording experience.

The bass is my 1972 Fender Jazz bass.


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Artist/Composer: Kenneth Whiteaker
Keywords: The Atrocity Exhibition

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